In vivo recombination of Saccharomyces eubayanus maltose-transporter genes yields a chimeric transporter that enables maltotriose fermentation

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2019, Pages

  Brouwers, Nick ^a   Gorter de Vries, Arthur R ^a   van den Broek, Marcel ^a   Weening, Susan M ^a   Elink Schuurman, Tom D ^b   Kuijpers, Niels G A ^b   Pronk, Jack T ^a   Daran, Jean Marc G ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Heineken Global Supply Chain   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARRIER PROTEIN; MALTOSE TRANSPORTER; MALTOTRIOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUSION PROTEIN; MALTOSE; TRISACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FERMENTATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MALX1 GENE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES EUBAYANUS; SEMALT GENE; SEMALT3 GENE; SEMALT413 GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPMTY1 GENE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; BEER; CHEMISTRY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

BEER; CARRIER PROTEINS; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; FERMENTATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALTOSE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES; TRISACCHARIDES; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 85064320640     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007853     Document Type: Article

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